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U.S.S. Richmond, sailors polishing bright work – Antique Print

U.S.S. Richmond, sailors polishing bright work, [between 1890 and 1901] — historic photograph
U.S.S. Richmond, sailors polishing bright work, [between 1890 and 1901]. Historic photograph from the Richmond collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Sailors crouch and bend over the brass fittings of the U.S.S. Richmond, the kind of routine "bright work" polishing that kept a steel warship presentable at anchor or in port. The cruiser was commissioned in 1890 and served in the Navy's fleet during the years that followed, including the Spanish-American War. The image comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial photography firm whose large glass-plate negatives documented American places and people in the late 1890s. Its shipboard detail, with men working in close quarters on the deck, shows the labor behind a warship's appearance.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). 151" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020927. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRichmond (Ship) United States.--Navy. Gunboats--American. Seamen--American. Ship equipment & rigging. Cleaning.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-64124

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